On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 10:05 PM, Alan Zaza wrote:
> I looked through one last Saturday night at FP and noticed the mount
> was not very stable. We were looking at some stuff at moderate
> powers, and the fov really had the jiggles. I noticed this when
> focusing, and then tapped the tube lightly. It took several seconds
> for the image to stabilize. I was not impressed.
Worse than an LX200? That's the first such comment I've heard. And
therefore pretty valuable. Thanks!
> However, maybe the
> person didn't tighten-up all the hardware? He was new to it all and
> spent the better part of the night aligning the thing to the stars.
Or maybe he had it poorly balanced? Which size was it? One might
expect the smaller ones to be more stable than the 14. OTOH, I've seen
C14's on G11 mounts that worked just fine. If the CGE mount isn't at
least that good then Celestron is screwing up badly.
-- Bill Arnett bill@No-Spam http://nineplanets.org/ Emerald Hills CA USA 37 27 N 122 15 W